Jelte Wicherts

Jelte Wicherts obtained a PhD in psychological methods and psychometrics from the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on group differences in IQ. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where he heads a research group that focuses on biases in statistical decision making, errors in the reporting of statistical results, misconduct, data sharing, publication bias, and replicability. He has received various awards and grants, including a prestigious VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for studying “human factors in statistics”.
(Photo credit: Tilburg University, Ben Bergmans)